High learnings, Low pay - Senior Lead Shopify Employee Review

3.0
Jan 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Experimentation culture - Diverse teams - Market leader, right?!

Cons

- Senior leadership team is not as strong as you would expect - A lot of "friends of the king" getting promoted to cool roles - Pay is not competitive to market, equity is very low - Annual comp review is very blurred, not structured at all. If your lead likes you, you get a raise/promotion, otherwise, regardless of your performance, you're not getting anything.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

- Kind and talented co-workers - Generous AI token spend - Fairly transparent company (has been getting less transparent over the years) - Lots of opportunity for impact

Cons

- Product management discipline is quite lacking since the new CTO joined - Microsoft culture is adding more chaos and stress, and causing projects to actually go slower - Managers are afraid to tell the truth to Mikhail about the loopholes in engineering; they just want to look good, so they rush their teams to ship crap - Top engineering leaders are moving out of management roles or leaving the company - Tobi used to be far more involved in ensuring a high engineering bar, but seems to have handed over the reins to the new Microsoft regime

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